Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-11-11
IN GENERAL.

There is a match box in the handle of a
newly invented umbrella.
A mountain of tin has been discovered
near Custer City, d. 7.
Mrs. Holmes, of Cincinnati, has Just COM
pleted a 3OOO-mile yacht cruise on the great
lakes She managed her own yacht.
The art of paper making has reached a
point where tree may be cut down, made
into paper, and turned out as a newspaper,
in thirty-six hours.
The king Of Corea has furnished his win
ter palace with $4,000 worth Of American
chairs beds and tables. He has also bought
an American steamer for S2S, 600.
The delay in the sailing of one of the AL
Ian Line steamers from Montreal in July,
1885, caused the death of 81 head of cattle
The court decides that the company must
pay the shippers $4,000
The new Spanish cruiser, Reina Regente,
built in Scotland, is claimed to be the fast
est war ship ahoat. On a trial trip, when
she used only natural draught, she steamed
at a rate Of 80 knots an hour last week,
under forced draft, she steamed at the ex-
traordinary rate of 2l knots.
A woman in Kings county. n S., lately
went to a field to bring the horse in. She
pretended to have oats in her extended
hat, but when the animal discovered the
ruse he turned and kicked his feet striking
her in the forehead, She was unconscious
for two days and it is doubtful if she will
recover
a Bengal tiger, two lions, a leopard, a
iaguar, an ibex and vulture belonging to
John Robinson's menagerie, escaped at st.
Louis on Thursday of last week during a
railroad collision at the depot. The tiger
bounded into the railroad superintendent's
Office and was easily captured. The rest
were secured after terrifying the inhabi-
tants.
Matthias Splitlog is the suggestive name
of a wealthy Indian railway builder. He
began business on a capital of fifty cents,
borrowed an axe, and went to work cutting
wood for steamboats, at twenty five cents
cord. At this low rate of pay he laid up
money, and today owns railroad, several
blocks of land in Kansas City, and a num-
ber of silver mines.
| Samuel B. Holden, of Craigh, Missouri,
has had something of Rip Van Winkle ex-
| perience. Eight years ago he came home
one day complaining of an intense pain in
his head. In twentyfour hours he was
drivelling idiot A few days ago he came
suddenly out of this state of idiocy, and took
up his life's story where he had left it off
eight years before.
Prof Waterhouse of Washington univer-
sity is of the opinion, after travelling all
over the world, that jute and its sister fl
bres can be raised in the United States and
that the crop will be worth 5000 0O0,0 600
annually. 1t can be made as fine as silk
and bleached to the whiteness of snow, AMI
is adapted for the manufacture of silk, sat
in, seersucker, and other articles.
John Hogan, an engineer on the Phiadel-
phia and Reading road is said to have made
the fastest record with locomotive of any
man living or dead, having run a mile in
thirty eight seconds. Mr.. Hogan does not
think that much greater speed than that
can ever be got out of a locomotive. Ger
tainly not if kept up at that rate, which
would make ninety-four miles an hour
Prof. John f. Rounds of Baltimore, Nd,
formerly associate editor of lions Herald,
has been taken TO an insane retreat. He
was one of the most accomplished linguists
in the country speaking II languages. His
trouble was caused by working 10 hours a
day in the classroom and then sitting up
until after midnight at home working out
problems of an abstruse and metaphysical
character.
Mrs. Sarah Chaplin lockwood of Cort-
land, n, Y, celebrated her l02d birthday on
Tuesday. Mrs lockwood is daughter of
the late Rev. Daniel Chaplin, d. D.. of Gro
ton, Mass, where she was born on Novem-
Der s, l1S5. She has a distinct recollection
of her great-uncle, Col. William Prescott,
the commander of the American forces at
Bunker Hill, who died on Oct l3, 1795,
when she was ten years old.
The German consul at New York has
notified Frederick Stalhe, of Bridgeport,
| that in nr1ar 70 HE or in
Germany he must return TO the Faderland
1t seems Herr Stalhe was drafted with the
German army last spring. and he in order
to evade doing military duty, fled to this
country. In the mean time his parents have
died and left him fortune of 300, 900
marks, which he will forfeit unless he re-
turns.
On Wednesday of last week, Just before
the people of Little Rock, Ark, were to
celebrate the completion of their new wa
ter works, placed in a mountain 25O feet
above the city, the centre wall dividing two
reservoirs gave way and TO- 600, 900 gallons
of water ran back down the mountain side
into the river. The place selected for the
celebration was just below the reservoir, in
the path taken by the volume of water.
Luckily the people had not assembled The
celebration was postponed.
A dramatic item with a touch Of the ludi-
crous comes from Paris regarding a would
be suicide who, after taking dose of poi
son, leaped off the top of the Arc de Tri-
omphe, but when halfway down caught his
trousers ON a projecting hook, and there
hung in mid air by his neither garments for
an hour before being rescued Taken to
the hospital it was found he had received
no injuries and a strong antidote counter
acted the effects of the poison.
Joe Hurt, of Wyoming Territory, enjoys
the distinction of having in the course of
his life on the frontier killed over one hun
dred hostile Indians slaughtered ten thou
sand antelope and about five thousand buff
falo He had contract with Chicago
house once to supply it with 5000 antelope
carcasses within a month, and he carried
out his contract 1t is said that in -four
days he killed and shipped thirteen hun
, dred. ute Joe, " as he is called by his ia
miliars, is a magnificent horseman and un
erring shot, and he can see objects with the
naked eye at greater distance than an or
dinary man can by the aid of glasses, Al
. present he is engaged in the peaceful occu
/ patton of sheep-raising.
Lewis Phillips sailor of Grand Rapids
Mich, put out in small sail boat, Il short
time since, aud landed at seldom visited
! and unnhabited island ON Lake Michigan
y While there his boat got adrft and lef
, him. With no tool but knife, he managed
! to make "A raft Of the dead limbs of tree
lashed together with pieces of his clothing
aud strips of bark peeled from the trees
d It took him three days 10 make the raft
= With a dead branch of a tree for a rudder
J he pushed Off aud after floating amlessl,
about for four days, he was picked up in al
. exhausted condition, having been sever
= days without food. His appearance ha'
( changed so that his friends did not Recognize
y him.
do Won snlTer WIN eatarrh, Yon e.n be- cnre.